Straw-stacker.



m. HEINEKE.

STRAW STACKER.

(Application Bled Oct. 22, 1900.) (No Model.)

Patented luy 23, |90I.

UNITED STATES MARTIN HEINEKE, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

STRAWm-STACKER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent N0. 679,228, dated July 23, 1901. Application filed October 22, 1900. Serial No. 33,993. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, MARTIN HEINEKE, of the city of Springfield, county of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Straw-Stackers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stackers in which a vertically-swingable section is hinged to a relatively stationary section; and it resides in means for shifting the vertically-swingable section and controlling the positions thereof. It is exemplified in the structure hereinafter described, and it is defined in lthe appended claim.

In the drawing forming part of this specification a part of a stacker is shown in side elevation.

This invention has nothing to do with details of construction of either of the sections of the stacker-frame or with the elevatingbelts thereof, except to provide means for swinging one section vertically on the other section and to hold the swinging section at any desired point of its swing. In the development of stackers a point has been reached at which the desirability of swinging one section vertically on the extended end of another section has been established, and means have been provided by which this result has been attained. Raddles or slatted belts have 4 carried the straw up one section and off the other. The construction of such raddles and the frames therefor is well understood, and so I have shown no more of a stacker than is needed to illustrate the construction and mode of operation of my shifting and controlling mechanism for the swingable section of the stacker.

The upper end of a stacker-section is shown at l. At 2 is shown a section pivoted at its inner end to the upper end of section l on a pivot-shaft 3. The details of construction of the two sections are immaterial, except as hereinafterstated. The section 2is fixed onto shaft 3, and a segment of gear-wheel 4c is fixed onto an extension of the shaft. An arm 5 is mounted loosely on the shaft at one end and is forked at the other end. A worm 6 is journaled between the forks of the arm. A shaft 7 is journaled at one end in a bracket, as 8, which extends from a side of section 1 or from some other relatively fixed part of the stacker, and its upper end extends through the worm and is connected therewith. A crank-arm 9 is formed on or attached to the lower end of rod 7. The worm turns with rod 7, and by manipulating the crank the section2 can be raised or lowered to properly deliver the straw or may be swung entirely over the pivot-shaft 3 and back onto the deck of the thresher, to which the stacker is attached.

The invention has particular reference to stackers that are permanently attached to threshers.

I claim- The combination with the vertically-swingable section of a stacker, of a pivot-shaft to which the swingable section is fixed, a gearwheel fixed onto the pivotshaft, an arm mounted loosely on the pivot-shaft and forked at its extended end, a worm journaled in the forked end of the arm in mesh with the wheel, and a shaft for the worm journaled in a bearing on a relatively stationary part of the stacker and having a crank-arm adjacent to such bearing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN l-IEINEKE.

Witnesses:

WARREN E. LEWIS, MAY JENKINS. 

